The Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Photographs of existing patterns

01/01/1969

Site Existing Conditions, Patterns for Project

Four images depicting the patterns ‘Walled Gardens,’ and’ ‘Central Market,’ as they had been identified in the Peruvian everyday life and consequently included in the pattern language used in the project.

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Project 1 Items

Peru Project - Low Cost Housing for the United Nations 1969 to 1970

11km north of Lima, Lima, Peru

Master Planning, Low Cost Housing, Realized , Invited Competition, Proposal submitted in 1970

Master plan for a community of 1500 houses, submitted as one out of twelve other competition entries for the United Nations sponsored international housing competition PREVI (Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda). The Center for Environmental Structure was chosen as the ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...

Published Books 1 Items

Houses Generated by Patterns 01/01/1969

Publication, Original Book

Digitized

The second of Alexander’s early works published by the Center for Environmental Structure, lays out the process of creating the pattern language for a group of houses designed for an experimental housing competition in Lima, Peru in 1969. It ...